Knowledge and Creativity in Psychology

Preparing for success at
university-Knowledge &
Creativity

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART A ..........................................................................................................................................3
PART B ...........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Knowledge and creativity are the two pillars which helps the organizations to make their
employees competent and thus shape their skills. Knowledge is basically the experience and
learning which the individuals gains and thus affect them both positively and negatively.
Creativity on the other hand, is turning the ideas into innovation and applying it in real life. This
report gives a brief about efficient communication skills and personal reflection.
MAIN BODY
PART A
Driscoll model
Driscoll model of reflection is basically the model which is being used for learning the
various aspects and for triggering a series of question which will result in effective thinking.
What
The participation in the psychology course has been one of the wonderful experience as it
taught me the various theories and concepts which affect the behaviour and social trends. During
course I gained understanding of the various approaches and methods to communicate with the
patients of psychological disorders. On some occasions I also used to find it difficult to acquire
full understanding but support and cooperation from the other class members helped me to
resolve the issue. At once when my tutor was teaching us communication theories to interact
with the people from different cultures I was not able to practically realise or understand the
situation. I used to think that culture creates only linguistic barrier and how it affect or relate with
the psychology of individual.
However during a group discussion in the course I got an opportunity to practically
visualise the concept. One of my classmate was from different culture. Though we used to
communicate in the same language so I thought that there cannot be any communication gap and
as a part of psychological learning I will be able to easily analyse his behaviour. However when
we both were paired in group and I was given task to provide him psychological counselling
considering him patient suffering from depression then I failed to make suitable analysis of his
situation and the suggestions provided by me to him were also found unacceptable and
ineffective for him due because of my negligence to cultural perspective in psychology,
particularly behaviour.
So what